Key Persons

Ilia Fedorov

Director of the Department for the Development of Integration Projects and CIS States under the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

General biographic information

  • Ilia Fedorov was born on June 29, 1970, in Ivanovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
  • In 1997 graduated from the International Academy of Entrepreneurship.
  • In 2006 graduated from the Ivanovo Chemical-Technical State University.
  • Fedorov’s professional career is tightly linked to the First Deputy Minister of Economic Development Mikhail Babich.

Professional career

  • From 1994 to 2002, Fedorov worked in the Federal Police Tax Service of the Russian Federation for the Ivanovo region.
  • From 2002 to 2006, was Head of the Department of Municipal Procurement of the Economic and Entrepreneurship Committee of Kineshma Administration, Ivanovo Region. Mikhail Babich, Deputy Minister of Economic Development, was elected to the State Duma from Kineshma single-member constituency.
  • In 2006-2008, was Chairman of the Kineshma City District Control Commission.
  • In 2009-2012, was Auditor of Audit Chamber of Kazan.
  • In 2012-2018, held various positions in the office of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District. In 2011-2018 Mikhail Babich was the Representative of the President.
  • In 2018-2019, was the First Secretary of the Russian embassy in Belarus. Fedorov moved to diplomatic service once the Russian President has appointed Mikhail Babich as Russian ambassador to Belarus on August 24, 2018.
  • From August 2019, Fedorov works in the Ministry of Economic Development. Earlier, on June 15, 2019, Mikhail Babich was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development. Fedorov works in the curatorial office of Babich and is the Director of the Department for the Development of Integration Projects and CIS States under the Ministry of Economic Development. At his appointment the department was called the Integration Projects Development Department. The department oversees the direction of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali Region.